CVE-2024-28904: Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
High (CVSS 7.8)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Elevation of Privilege
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2024-Apr
Released
2024-04-09
EPSS Score
0.67% (percentile: 71.2%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires multiple conditions to be met, such as specific application behavior, user actions, manipulation of parameters passed to a function, and impersonation of an integrity level token. According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability? In this case, a successful attack could be performed from a low privilege AppContainer. The attacker could elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment. What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite arbitrary file content in the security context of the local system. What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker would only be able to delete targeted files on a system.

Affected Products (1)

Windows

  • Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)

Security Updates (1)

Acknowledgments

Naceri with MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations

Revision History

  • 2024-04-09: Information published.